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About Me

My primary research interests are in multilingual grammar
engineering, the study of variation, both within and across languages,
the relationship between linguistics and computational
linguistics, and pratical methods for promoting engagement with
ethical issues in NLP. My grammar engineering work centers on the LinGO Grammar Matrix, an
open-source starter kit for the development of broad-coverage
precision HPSG grammars. My language interests include English [eng]
(including AAVE), Japanese [jpn], Wambaya [wmb], Chintang [ctn], ASL [ase], and
Mandarin [cmn]. The AGGREGATION project is investigating the automatic creation of grammars
from IGT with the Grammar Matrix for the benefit of language documentation.

The Grammar Matrix is developed in the context of the DELPH-IN consortium, and Matrix-derived grammars are compatible with the DELPH-IN suite of open-source tools. The Grammar Matrix itself represents an approach to computational linguistic typology, using computational methodology to combine depth of formal methods (creating grammars which map surface strings to semantic representations) with the breadth of typological investigation (attempting to cover the known range of variants across languages for each phenomenon we approach).

I am also interested in sociolinguistic variation, or the ways in which speakers manipulate the possibilities allowed by their languages to create style and register. This interest led to my involvement in the LiCORICE project, investigating the ways in which speakers express and deploy claims to authority and align with or against interlocutors. My dissertation (available online) explored how competence grammar can accommodate the relationship between non-categorical constraints on sociolinguistic variation and social meaning.

Prior
to coming to UW, I held temporary positions at Stanford University and
UC Berkeley, and worked in industry at YY Technologies. I received my
PhD from the Linguistics Department at Stanford University, where I
joined the HPSG and LinGO projects at CSLI. My AB (also in
Linguistics) is from UC Berkeley, and I've also studied at Tohoku
University in Sendai, Japan.